Democrat lawsuit accuses Trump and his team of 'gleefully welcoming Russia’s help'

Democrat voters around America are cheering today and saying “at long last” the party is fighting back.

The Democrats are doing what Americans do. It is going to court and it is going to sue because it lost what should have been the “unlosable” presidential election.

The party filed a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit and it is going for big targets: the Donald Trump campaign officials, the Russian government as well as WikiLeaks and Australian Julian Assange.

The filing described by some political analysts “as a stunt” is the Democrats' way of showing, in particular, their financial donors, they are back in the fight.

“Honestly, it’s just a way to raise money," CNN political reporter Gloria Borger said.

The Democrats accused Mr Trump’s campaign of being “a racketeering enterprise” that worked with the Russians and WikiLeaks in a conspiracy that included hacking email servers at the DNC. (AP)

"They’re raising gobs of money and this is just one way of getting into the act here.”

For a long time after the election the Democratic party appeared to be in a state of shock. Hillary Clinton disappeared to lick her wounds and write her book while the party fought to regroup and to try to understand how they could possibly be beaten by the political novice, Mr Trump.

The 66-page lawsuit accuses the Trump campaign of being in cahoots with the Russians.

“The conspiracy constituted an act of previously unimaginable treachery: the campaign of the presidential nominee of a major party in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency,” the DNC wrote in its lawsuit.

The party filed a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit and it is going for big targets: the Donald Trump campaign officials, the Russian government as well as WikiLeaks and Australian Julian Assange. (PA)

The Democrats accused Mr Trump’s campaign of being “a racketeering enterprise” that worked with the Russians and WikiLeaks in a conspiracy that included hacking email servers at the DNC and leaking damaging information to the public. It says Mr Trump and his team “gleefully welcomed Russia’s help”.

“During the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in Donald Trump’s campaign,” Democratic Party chairman Tom Perez said.

“If the occupant of the Oval Office won’t protect our democracy, Democrats will. It is our obligation to the American people.”

Along with Assange (who has spent the last six years holed up inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London) others named in the suit include Mr Trump’s son, Donald J. Trump, Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, and senior adviser and Paul Manafort – Mr Trump’s onetime campaign chairman, now charged with conspiracy against the United States and facing a prison sentence.